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Letters Patent No. 86,512, dated FcbfrmI/ryV 2, 1869.

IMPROVE'D DOOR-MAT.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the Bama.

To all whom it ma/y concern:

` Figure 1 is a perspective view.

Figure 2 is a section on the line a: as, iig. 1.

This is a frame of detachable pieces, so arranged as to contain the bunches of husks upon wires, and retain them rigidly. 1

The: Wires upon Vwhich the bunches of h usks are lapped are hoked at one end to one of the pieces of the frame, so that they cannot be withdrawn when filled, and the mat may be ill'e'diin sections, which are divided by the occasional cross-Wires, the whole being packed by the end pieces, which are clamped by screws, rods, and set-nuts. 4

In the drawings- A B are two end pieces, which, in connection with the cross-wires C, constitute a frame for holding husks to form a door-mat.

The wires@ are bent at one end, so as to be hooked over theV pins Dy in the end piece A, and at their other ends pass through the slots E in the end piece B, a certain amount of lateral play being permitted to the wires, as they may chance to be somewhat unequally lled. l.

It will be seen that the wires C are readily attached to the end piece A when the frame is being put together, but they soon assume their proper position, at

'right angles to the piece A, in which position they cannot be retracted or removed.

The wires F are the means of tightening up the aggregation of the husks which forms the mat, the nuts 'G pressing the pieces AB Vtowards each other.

The eXtra wires H assist in maintaining the position of the outer rows of the husks.

To make up the mat, hook the wires C over the pins in the piece A, and bring them to aposition `at an angle of ninety degrees therewith then bend successive bunches of husks over the wires, causing the ends to project in 011e direction. As the bunches accumulate on each wire, they are pushed toward the end piece A, and a portion of the mat being thus complete, the cross-wire with, as before, until the mat is suiliciently lled, when the piece B is placed lin position, and the Whole mat tightened up by the nuts G on the screw-rods F.

It will be seen that the two Wires F and H'lie aside of each other, and pass through sockets S, which sockets likewise form bearings for the cross-wires K, Whereby I produce great simplicity in the construction of the' parts of my device.

The Wires C are' bent as stated, and thebends rest in the groove ofthe piece A, whereby there is no displacement of the wires in one direction, while the small vpins in said pieces A prevent displacement in the other direction.

Having described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by letters Patent, is-

The combination and arrangement of the slotted piece B, grooved piece A, bent wires C, sockets S, and cross-wires K, as and for the purpose described and represented.

To the above specication of my improved door-mat, l have signed my hand, this 8th of October, 1866. l,

J AOOB J. DIEHL. l

Witnesses S. C. KEMON,

A. M. TANNER.

K is placed in position, and another section proceeded 

